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  Alisyn Camerota is a journalist and cohost of CNN’s morning show New Day. Prior to joining CNN, Camerota was cohost of FOX News Channel’s morning show FOX + Friends Weekend. She has been a national correspondent for NBC’s morning magazine show Real Life and the crime show America’s Most Wanted. She has also worked as a reporter at several local stations, including WHDH in Boston, WLNE in Providence, and WTTG in Washington, D.C. She lives in the New York area with her husband and three children.

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  Alisyn Camerota was born on June 21, 1966 in Bellingham, Washington, USA as Alisyn Elaine Camerota. She is known for her work on America's Most Wanted: America Fights Back (1988), Fox Files (1998) and CNN Newsroom (1989). She is married to Tim Lewis. They have three children. See full bio »
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  Alisyn Lane Camerota
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  Born June 21, 1966 (age 51)
  Shrewsbury, New Jersey
  Residence Las Vegas, Los Angeles, and New York City
  Occupation Broadcast journalist, CNN host, correspondent for NBC News
  Spouse(s) Tim Lewis
  Alisyn Lane Camerota is an American television journalist and novelist. She is currently co-anchoring CNN's New Day. She has co-anchored CNN Tonight, and served in many roles during a 16-year career at the Fox News Channel. She is the author of Amanda Wakes Up.

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  1 Biography
  1.1 Education
  1.2 Early broadcasting career
  1.3 Fox News
  1.4 CNN
  1.5 Amanda Wakes Up
  1.6 Personal life
  2 References
  3 External links
  Biography[edit]
  Education[edit]
  Camerota graduated from the School of Communication of the American University in Washington, D.C. with a degree in broadcast journalism.

  Early broadcasting career[edit]
  Before joining Fox, Camerota worked at a number of different stations, including WHDH in Boston and WTTG in Washington D.C., and for America's Most Wanted. She also did some work for Koppel Communications, where she worked on Ted Koppel's primetime documentaries.

  Fox News[edit]
  While based in New York City, Camerota began co-hosting America's News Headquarters, with Bill Hemmer, beginning on September 30, 2013, in the Monday to Friday 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. ET time slot.[1] Camerota co-hosted Fox & Friends Weekend along with Clayton Morris. Her final broadcast on that program was September 28, 2013. She was a co-host on Fox & Friends First. In October 2007, Camerota started her own blog on the Fox & Friends page on Fox News Channel's website called, In The Greenroom. In November 2007, Fox & Friends began an Internet-only segment called, The After the Show Show. The segment features Fox & Friends anchors of Brian Kilmeade, Steve Doocy and Gretchen Carlson, sometimes along with earlier guests or crew members from the cable show and a toy monkey at the end of the Internet segment. This is done live after the main show has finished while, America's Newsroom, is shown on the cable channel. These videos are available later on the Fox & Friends page on Fox News Channel's website.[2] Prior to her maternity leave, she was a co-host of the weekend edition of the same program, in addition to regularly appearing on the Friday edition of Fox & Friends 1st. She has been a guest-panelist on Fox News late-night satire show Red Eye w/Greg Gutfeld.

  Prior to becoming a program host, Camerota was a correspondent for the network's Boston bureau since joining the network in February 1998, reporting on a number of different stories and contributing to the network's affiliate service, Fox News Edge.

  At the end of the afternoon broadcast on March 14, 2014, Camerota marked the end of her 16-year run with the network in a teary-eyed farewell to her afternoon audience.

  CNN[edit]
  On July 14, 2014, CNN and CNN International announced that Camerota has joined the CNN news team to serve as a TV anchor with a time slot to be announced in the coming months.[3] Camerota co-anchored on CNN’s New Day the morning of Friday, July 25, 2014 and Monday, August 25, 2014. In 2015 Camerota became a permanent co-anchor of New Day.[citation needed]

  Pamela Geller referred to Camerota as, "clueless Camerota" in reference to Camerota's perception of Muslims.[4] In May 2015, Geller argued with Camerota regarding the Curtis Culwell Center attack, which occurred at a Geller sponsored event.[5]

  In June 2017, Camerota once again found herself accused of insensitivity for suggesting during a live interview that national spelling champion Ananya Vinay, a 12-year-old born in California, should be able to read Sanskrit. A CNN spokesperson later dismissed the comment as a joke, calling those offended "extremely cynical."[6]

  New Day's viewership has increased by 9% since Camerota was added to the program.[7]

  Amanda Wakes Up[edit]
  Camerota wrote Amanda Wakes Up, a novel she began writing while taking notes of her interviews of candidates in the 2012 presidential election. The notes developed into a novel based on her 25 years of working for the news business. She wrote the book with the desire to remind readers of the importance of real journalism.[8] Book reviewer Lincee Ray of the Associated Press wrote that the novel offers "a healthy dose of what it means to weigh ambition against truth".[9][10]

  Personal life[edit]
  Camerota and her husband, investment manager Timothy Lewis,[11][12] have fraternal twin daughters born in 2005, and a son who was born in 2007. The couple lives in Westport, Connecticut.[11]

  In 2010 Camerota appeared on The Today Show to discuss her infertility issues[13] and served as host of the National Infertility Associations "Night of Hope Celebration."[14] Camerota is originally from Shrewsbury, New Jersey.[15]

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  CNN’s Alisyn Camerota on Writing Her First Novel and Being Banned by Trump
  'Lunch' with the author of Amanda Wakes Up and co-host of New Day

  By Diane Clehane|August 2, 2017
  Perhaps it was because today is the last hurrah before A-listers head off to the beach and the mountains to escape summer’s dog days. Whatever the reason, Michael’s was jumping today.

  I was joined by CNN’s Alisyn Camerota, whose new book Amanda Wakes Up was released July 25. I read it in three nights and enjoyed it thoroughly.

  Alisyn Camerota and Diane Clehane
  News junkies and veterans alike will find it a well-paced, enjoyable read and also have fun trying to decide who these characters are supposed to be in real life. Alisyn, wearing a fire-engine red dress by Black Halo to echo the book’s cover, told me she’s glad she didn’t know what it took to write a novel when she decided to turn “a bunch of stories” that she’d written about her own experiences in television news into a book. “It was harder than I thought,” she admits.

  Alisyn did, however, have a head start on many aspiring novelists as she certainly didn’t want for material. The co-host of CNN’s New Day with Chris Cuomo has covered several presidential campaigns and has been the subject of Donald Trump’s ire (more on that later). Prior to joining CNN in 2014, Alisyn logged sixteen years at Fox News, ten of which were spent at Fox & Friends. Earlier this year, Alisyn went public with her story of being sexually and emotionally harassed by the network’s chairman and CEO, the late Roger Ailes. See, I told you she had the stuff for a good page-turner.

  Amanda Wakes Up has gotten good notices from USA Today, Vanity Fair and AP among other outlets and is also the beneficiary of some fortuitous timing. Cable news is pulling in plenty of eyeballs these days and is being talked about and dissected more than ever before, thanks to the television-obsessed occupant of the White House. “Years ago people would come up to me in airports and restaurants and say, they liked me or that they watched the show,” Alisyn told me. “But now they come up and say, ‘Thank you for everything you’re doing. Keep it up.’ Before they wander off. There’s this new level of gratitude [from viewers]. People seem to want us to hold those in power accountable.”

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  Not so coincidentally, the heroine of Amanda Wakes Up is Amanda Gallo is a morning anchor at FAIR News, a cable news network that brands itself as “True and Equal,” favors right-wing politicos and likes its female anchors blonde and bronzed (at least their legs). The roman à clef puts a TV star turned presidential candidate named Victor Fluke (really), long on bravado but with a decided deficit of conscience, at the center of the story. Sound familiar?

  Believe it or not, Alisyn says she’d didn’t base Fluke on Trump. She started writing the book in 2012 at a time, she says, when she was interviewing a slew of presidential hopefuls including Rick Perry, Rick Santorum, Herman Cain and Michelle Bachmann. A year later, it was her agent that suggested she set the story in the middle of a presidential race. “I essentially had to rewrite it. I figured Victor Fluke would work one way or the other.” But, she admits, “There was really no time before Donald Trump. He was on Fox & Friends a lot as a political pundit before he was a candidate. I interviewed him regularly.”

  Now, said Alisyn, she joins the growing list of banned reporters the president will not talk to. “He blacklisted me. During one of the debates on Fox News they used a clip of me at CNN asking him about saying he was against the war in Afghanistan instead of the war in Iraq. He insisted he said ‘Iraq’ and I read him the transcript where he said ‘Afghanistan.’ Word came back he was angry about that.”

  But there have been no shortage of the president’s foot soldiers willing to come on. When I asked Alisyn what was going through her mind when the blink-and-you-missed him former White House director of communications called in, she broke into a smile. “We were told ‘The Mooch’ wants to go live. We’re going live.’ He’s a colorful character. We’re always trying to pierce the veneer [of political operatives and politicians] and he is just a very unvarnished guy. I was just listening and taking notes while Chris asked questions. I didn’t know where he was going.” Apparently, neither did he.

  This administration has made the already grueling job of anchoring a morning news program an Herculean task. Alisyn has been getting up at the ungodly hour of 3:30 am for years but what’s different is what’s waiting for her when she turns on her phone. I used to prepare for my morning show by looking over my notes, reviewing the lead stories and seeing who the guests are,” said Alisyn. “Now [overnight] there’s new leaks, new tweets, someone’s been fired.” The news cycle for the last presidential election was “nothing like I’ve ever experienced in twenty-five years,” but its head-spinning aftermath is “like that, but on steroids.”

  It was that “breathless quality” of working in television news that Alisyn wanted to capture in Amanda Wakes Up. She told me she would never have been able to do it if she were working at her current job. While she was writing the book, she was working three days a week as a morning news anchor. “I’d get the kids (then 7-year-old twin girls and a 5-year-old son) off to school and go sit in a comfy chair to write and suddenly I’d hear the bus pulling up. It would be 3:30 and I’d still be in my pajamas!”

  To help her navigate her way through writing her first novel, Alisyn told me she took a writing class “with real writers” in Fairfield County where she lives. She found the experience of reading her work in progress aloud to the group invaluable. “They were very kind-hearted, but I could hear the constructive criticism underneath,” she said laughing at the memory. Alisyn also learned to summon up her creativity whenever the opportunity presented itself. “I came to love long airplane flights and three-hour delays were great. I’d pull out the laptop and start typing.”

  In the book, Alisyn does a very good job of drawing the reader into the world of television news through some terrific dialogue and engaging, well-drawn characters. I found Amanda’s co-anchor Rob Lahr, who she depicts as handsome, sexy and sexist particularly intriguing. As if on cue, Alisyn’s former co-anchor Bill Hemmer, the last one she worked with at Fox, came up to our table to say hello. So who is Rob based on? “There are certain shades of Bill Hemmer in Rob, but not the sexist part,” said Alisyn. He’s a “composite” of several men she’s worked with her in career.

  But, not surprisingly, there is a lot of Alisyn in Amanda. In one of the first scenes Alisyn wrote for the book, Amanda is spending a weekend in the Hamptons when she gets a call from her producer to high tail it over to a nearby town to cover breaking news about a shooter in a hostage situation. Not expecting to be tapped to go on air, Amanda is forced to go live wearing only a T-shirt over her bathing suit.

  In real life, it was Alisyn who was spending a weekend at the Cape when she got the news from a friend that John F. Kennedy Jr.’s plane was missing and called into the newsroom. The first reporter on the scene, Alisyn went live in a Chanel jacket borrowed from her producer’s wife over her bathing suit. “It was an unforgettable story. I was on air for ten hours and I stayed for nine days – and had to buy some clothes.” Those types of experiences that foster an esprit de corps among journalists are well used by Alisyn to give the book its insider-y feel and humor. “There is this gallows humor in some of the worst situations. I wanted to capture that. The news never sleeps.”

  Alisyn, who was recently nominated for two Emmy Awards (“My first time!”), is having a pretty good month. She’s been making appearances for the book drawing “record crowds” last week at the Barnes & Noble in Westport. And last night it was SRO at the New Canaan library. Tonight, she’s off to Greenwich to be feted at The Perfect Provenance, a luxury boutique, gallery space and café owned by our mutual friend, former publicist Lisa Lori. “I hope the book lives out there in the world for a while,” said Alisyn as she got up to leave. “It’s really a universal story of a young woman navigating her way through her career and what you’re willing to give up for success.”

  Here’s today’s Michael’s tables rundown:

  1. Barry Frey

  2. Leslie Stevens

  3. Andrew Stein with Fox News’ Bill Hemmer

  4. Esther Newberg

  5. Jeane Siegel

  6. Joan Jakobson, Mary Murphy and Patrick Murphy

  7. Glenn Horowitz

  8. Jerry Inzerillo

  9. Gus Wenner with his girlfriend, so we’re told…

  11. Architect Jeffrey Beers

  14. Matt Rich

  15. Tom Rogers

  16. United Stations Radio’s Nick Verbitsky and Jim Thompson, president of the Broadcast Federation of America

  17. Penske Media’s vice chairman Gerry Byrne

  18. William Vanden Heuvel

  20. Cindy Lewis

  21. Clifford Press

  22. Lou Forster

  23. Drew Schiff

  24. Andy Plesser with the EIC of The Drum

  25. Tom Goodman and Kenneth Juster, a candidate for US Ambassador to India

  27. Alisyn Camerota, Barbara Marks and yours truly.

  We’ll be on our summer hiatus for the rest of the month. See you back at Michael’s in September!

  [Diane Clehane posts reports from Michael’s restaurant every Wednesday. She can be reached via email at lunch@adweek.com.]

  Diane Clehane
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  Diane Clehane is Adweek's weekly 'Lunch' columnist.

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CNN anchor Alisyn Camerota found her voice facing down powerful bullies. Now she's sharing her story with us and, most important, her kids.

While most moms talk about social media with their tweens, morning-newswoman Alisyn Camerota's chats start in a way few parents' do: with Donald Trump insulting her online. "New Day on CNN treats me very badly. @AlisynCamerota is a disaster. Not going to watch anymore," he tweeted last year. "I was in the bathroom washing my face when my daughter came in and said, 'Mom, bad news." The tweet had been shared more than a thousand times.

Alisyn's view on the situation isn't quite as dire. "I just read the tweet and went on with my day, but in my kids' world, how many times something has been shared is a currency that's important to them. My daughter feared that it was going to have that ripple effect."

That kind of consequence can freak out a child. But Alisyn, mom to twin girls Francesca and Alessandra, 12, and 10-year-old son, Nathaniel, knows how to talk them down. "It's not reality," she reminds them and tells them not to worry. "We still have our friends, neighbors and family, and we can't put much stock in what's happening in the ether."

Twitter's toxic environment prompted once-active Alisyn to quit in July, even though her New Day co-host, Chris Cuomo, remains engaged on the platform. "My kids asked me why I left, and I said, 'Because I didn't think it was helping anything." She invited them to read the "breakup letter" she wrote, which was posted to cnn.com. "They went over to our shared iPad and sat at the kitchen table. My daughter said, 'Mom, this is great.' I've always known my kids are interested in my career choices. They offer insight on how I should approach things."

The kids were just as interested when Alisyn made a statement this past April: that during her 16 years at Fox News, Roger Ailes, the network's former president, had sexually harassed her. One incident: When she was starting out at Fox, she asked for bigger opportunities on the job, and his alleged response was that it might require them getting to know each other better away from the office, in a hotel. She says he added, "Do you know what I'm saying?" (He died less than a month after she opened up about it, but not before denying through an attorney that he had inappropriate conversations with Alisyn.) Again, once her kids were looped in, they gave their brave mom "such a nice response."

We talked to Alisyn at her Connecticut home about these tough conversations, her unorthodox schedule and her recently released novel, Amanda Wakes Up, based on her topsy-turvy time as a female anchor at Fox News.

Meredith: How did you tell your kids what Roger Ailes had done to you?

Alisyn: They always knew I had challenges with Roger, which went way beyond the instances of sexual harassment, like how I didn't think his editorial control was reflective of true journalism. When I decided to talk about it publicly, my daughter happened to be in the room when the interview was airing, so we watched it. My girls were so cute. They just threw their arms around me and started hugging me and saying, "Mom, we're so proud of you." It's so adorable and touching to me that they have that in them already.

M: What was your son's reaction?

A: I overheard him telling his best friend, "My mom's boss touched her butt." I had to say, "No, he didn't, that's not the story." I don't think he understood the nuances of sexual harassment at the time; he thought a butt must be involved. I had to clarify for him. He understands now.

M: What do you hope your children take away from you talking about your experience so publicly--and from talking to them about it?

A: I'm hoping to model that behavior of, "Let's talk about things, even challenging, uncomfortable or unpleasant things." It's working at the moment. The message for all of us--adults and my kids--is that silence is rarely the answer, and communication can bring some light to the situation. I'm happy to say they're asking me sensitive questions, and I'm trying to answer the best way I can. When something has happened in their world, my kids have shared it with me, even when they were sworn to secrecy. When someone, for instance, has called someone a name at school, they've come home and told me, even though there's a code among the kids that they're not going to talk about it.

M: How do your kids react to President Trump calling CNN fake news?

A: My kids are very involved and interested in my career and in journalism. They ask lots of questions about my job and think about their own future jobs and choices. They would never think that what I'm doing is not real or important. They've always known how significant it is. But they have heard that CNN has been under siege in the current climate, and they are concerned.

M: I'm sure the video of Trump punching out a CNN logo in a wrestling ring didn't help.

A: My kids' social-media and online access is pretty controlled by us, so they don't get to watch a lot of viral videos. I'm old-fashioned; I like real human interaction. I still like the telephone, meeting people for lunch and talking over dinner. I worry about my kids' cyber futures, particularly in the love-life department. It seems their generation meets online instead of the way we did. I know I'm fighting a current, but I'm trying to prolong their interactions with people for as long as possible. It's important to be able to speak directly to people, have real conflict and resolve it.

M: There's real conflict between your book's main character, Amanda Gallo, a TV journalist, and her Roger Ailestype boss. How should women handle it when they disagree with the direction their company is going?

A: I'm always perplexed by people who think they should just quit. The advice to walk out with your head held high is great in the movies, but most people I know need to pay their bills. So you have to find an exit strategy and, while you're there, try to make it work. I believe in communicating with the boss and airing your grievances.

Roger was famously opinionated, and it was his way or the highway. I found that challenging. It helped me to assign these challenges to my fictional character, Amanda, and let her figure it out. I also felt driven to write this book because I was facing ethical challenges during the 2012 election when candidates would come on and say things that weren't fact-based. Writing it down helped me to collect my thoughts. But I was a weekend anchor then, working just three days a week. I think it would have been impossible to write a book if I'd had a demanding, five-day-a-week work schedule.

M: Do you want your children to read your book?

A: It has some language and scenes that would be inappropriate for them, but I think that by the time they're teenagers they can handle it. They've asked me; they can't wait to read it.

They watched me writing and rewriting for years and told me not to quit when I got frustrated. They loved the cover instantly and told me to go with it. They have title suggestions for the sequel. One is Amanda Takes a Nap.

M: Do you think Amanda will become a mother in a sequel?

A: It's funny you say that. I don't remember if Amanda was a mom in my draft, but originally she was married. My husband said, "Oh, don't make her married. That's so boring," which I thought was hilarious. The minute he said it, I knew he was right. When you don't know how work is going to affect your love life, if your boyfriend doesn't agree with your work mandate and the hours are too demanding, that drama is juicier. Part of this book is about the challenges of journalism, and part of this book is about balancing your personal and work life. Maybe someday I'll write about how to balance being a mother with having a job in journalism.

M: How is your work-life balance? You do work at Turner, one of our 100 Best Companies, after all.

A: I have one of the most family-friendly schedules. I am available at 9 a.m. most days. Generally, I stay later for meetings and conference calls. However, if you want to be able to show up at school parties, class trips and when the bus lets out, be a morning anchor, if you can hack waking up in the middle of the night.

The kids' night events are a challenge because I wake up at 3 a.m. I always pray at the talent show that my kids go on early and they're not the 65th entry. As soon as I see them, I head right out and run to bed. I should go to sleep by 8 p.m. every night.

NOVEL IDEA

The inspiration for main character Amanda's best friend Laurie is one of Alisyn's real-life BFFs, fellow mom Maria Villalobos, a California-based TV producer. The two met at America's Most Wanted in the '90s. "She always delivers," Alisyn says. Even on the day of this photo shoot, Maria was there (early) and gave Alisyn her shirt to wear! In the book, Laurie works on a competing network. "When I show up on a breaking news story, I see ABC, NBC, CBS--we're all in it together. People think we're archrivals, but we're friends."

Amanda Wakes Up (Viking, July 2017), $17; amazon.com

THE SHOCK OF A LIFETIME

It took three years and four rounds of IVF to conceive her twin daughters. "I had been told a million times that it would take a lot of medical intervention to have another child," says Alisyn. When the girls were toddlers, Alisyn was out celebrating her birthday. Her friends noticed she was having trouble zipping up her pants. "I made my husband take me for an emergency doctor's visit for strange abdominal distention. I was sure something horrible was amiss. Then, the doctor screamed: 'Oh my God! There's a big baby in here!'" Alisyn learned she was 16 weeks pregnant with her son, Nathaniel.

ALISYN'S DAILY GRIND

3:00 AM WAKES UP

"Every single morning without fail, when my alarm goes off, I'm shocked to the point of 'What is that noise?' It's just not a natural wake-up time."

3:30 AM LEAVES CONNECTICUT

5:00 AM IN THE HAIR-AND-MAKEUP CHAIR IN MANHATTAN

6:00 AM T0 9:00 AM

ON AIR

12:00 PM LEAVES OFFICE

1:00 PM ARRIVES HOME

"Afternoon naps are my friend."

8:00 PM IN BED

"All three of my kids come into my room, kiss me goodnight and tuck me in. My husband puts them to bed between 9 and 9:30."

Caption: The kids' artwork fills a whole wall.

Amanda Wakes Up
Kristine Huntley
Booklist.
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CNN host Camerota's debut novel takes readers behind the scenes of a television morning news show on a
fictitious network that purports to be representing both sides of the political divide. When local TV news
anchor Amanda Gallo accepts a job at FAIR, a news network recently established by a hotshot producer, she
never imagines she'll end up anchoring its morning news show, Wake Up, USA! opposite handsome
anchorman Rob Lehr. Thrust into the spotlight, Amanda soon finds the supposedly impartial news network
is giving preferential treatment to the conservative presidential candidate, Victor Fluke, an actor turned
politician who favors tough immigration laws and is firmly anti-abortion. Amanda is troubled by the fact
that her show gives Fluke a platform while virtually ignoring his liberal female opponent. The show starts
to affect Amanda's personal life as well: her relationship with her liberal boyfriend is strained, and she
realizes she's attracted to her arrogant cohost. With a plethora of parallels to the most recent U.S. election,
Camerota's timely send-up will engross readers from both sides of the political spectrum.--Kristine Huntley
YA: Politically savvy teens might enjoy this look into the world of cable news. KH.
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Publishers Weekly.
264.21 (May 22, 2017): p67.
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Camerota, an anchor at CNN, mines familiar territory for her entertaining debut, which chronicles how
idealistic and ambitious Amanda Gallo navigates her divisive job at the ratings-hungry FAIR News
network. After reporting a local story that catches the eye of network owner Benji Diggs, Amanda lands a
plum job hosting a national morning show. While she buys the company line of presenting both sides of
every story, she is concerned about some moves that strike her as irresponsible: giving loads of air time to
unqualified presidential candidate Victor Fluke, going on air with flimsy research, and using kid gloves with
viewer favorite Fluke--even ignoring a scandal that other networks have reported--to ensure his return to the
show. Amanda tries to use her position for good, trying to bring people to the center for dialogue, while
attempting to convince her college-professor boyfriend that conservatives aren't all that bad. When she gets
into hot water after grilling Fluke on air, she tries to redeem herself by landing a questionable interview that
jeopardizes her relationship with her best friend and fellow reporter, Laurie Prodder. Camerota doesn't have
a light touch when it comes to presenting what seem like obvious points in a story that pits integrity against
ratings, but everything manages to come together in a satisfying conclusion. (July)
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Journalism and entertainment blur in this story of a rising cable news star who lands her dream job only to
see her life unravel around her.Camerota, co-host of CNN's morning show New Day offers an inside look at
TV news, where entertainment value takes priority over almost all else. Amanda Gallo has a midlevel
reporting job at a local station when she's poached by FAIR News, a new network started by a media mogul
with dreams of overcoming the partisan divide. He quickly promotes her from field reporter to host of a
morning show, a role for which she is carefully made over to fit the now-ubiquitous cable news anchor
image. But from the very first show she co-hosts with her prickly partner, Gallo is set back on her heels
during segments that put shock value and high ratings over true reporting. The ethical dilemma is
heightened as a divisive presidential campaign--pitting an accomplished Democratic candidate against a
Republican reality TV star with a grudge against the media--begins to heat up. Amanda has echoes of
Bridget Jones as she walks a confounding line between ambition and bewilderment. Given the current
debate about cable news and how it handles divisive topics, this novel feels overly sympathetic to the plight
of the anchors without meaningfully questioning their own roles in perpetuating "fake news." Despite this,
it does provide a fascinating glimpse at a highly curated world driven by viewer data and advertising
revenue and will likely sit well with those already leery of the way we get our information. Though it lacks
a heavy-hitting sense of purpose, this surface look at how news is made offers food for thought.
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When Amanda Gallo, fresh from the backwater of local TV, lands the job of her dreams at FAIR News (the
coveted morning anchor slot) she's finally made it: a six-figure salary, wardrobe allowance, plenty of on-air
face time, and a chance to realize her dreams, not to mention buy herself lunch. Amanda feels for the first
time that she can make her mom and her best friend proud and think about an actual future with her
boyfriend, Charlie. But she finds her journalistic ideals shredded as she struggles to keep up with the issues
in a ratings-crazed madhouse--battling for hair and makeup time, coping with her sexist (but scathingly
handsome) co-anchor, Rob, mixing up the headlines with pajama modeling on the street, and showing Benji
Diggs, her media maestro boss, that she's got what it takes. As the news heats up in a hotly contested
election season and a wild-card candidate, former Hollywood actor Victor Fluke, appears on the scene,
Amanda's pressure-cooker job gets hotter as her personal life unravels. Walking a knife's edge between
ambition and survival, and about to break the biggest story of her career, Amanda must decide what she's
willing to give up to get ahead--and what she needs to hold on to save herself. "Amanda Wakes Up" is an
inherently entertaining and engaging read that clearly showcases author Alisyn Camerota's genuine flair for
originality in her debut as a novelist. While very highly recommended, especially for community library
Contemporary General Fiction collections, it should be noted for personal reading lists that "Amanda Wakes
Up" is also available in a digital book format (Kindle, $12.99).
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• Washington Independent Review of Books
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  Amanda Wakes Up: A Novel
  By Alisyn Camerota Viking 336 pp.
  Reviewed by Cathy Alter
  July 25, 2017
  This made-for-vacation read offers up a playful skewering of cable news.

  Usually when a reviewer uses the phrase “fun read,” it’s a polite euphemism for a book you’d more than likely toss in a beach bag or leave on an airplane. And while you may do just that with Alisyn Camerota’s Amanda Wakes Up (because it is super fun to read), her debut novel is also a juicy tutorial in political scandal, vocational backstabbing, and Faustian-level soul-selling.

  In other words: morning news television.

  From the school of Write What You Know, Camerota, co-anchor of CNN’s “New Day” and former cohost of “FOX + Friends Weekend,” takes the reader inside the world of broadcast news in the same way that ex-Voguer Lauren Weisberger exposed the cruel Wintour-eque landscape of fashion magazines in The Devil Wears Prada and former attorney John Grisham turns dry legalese into courtroom thrillers.

  Camerota’s protagonist (and, based on the physical descriptions, perhaps alter-ego) is Amanda Gallo, a slightly discombobulated reporter on local news. When she’s first on the scene to report on a hostage situation, her quick-thinking willingness to show up at the standoff pants-less (this will all make sense) and emotional on-air delivery gain her the anchor slot at a new cable network called FAIR News.

  At first, Amanda thinks she’s finally hit the big leagues — with a staggering salary, abundant clothing allowance, and a sexy co-anchor providing enough banter for a Hepburn and Tracy movie. She soon discovers, however, that FAIR News is anything but.

  The book follows Amanda as she attempts to “see both sides” of a presidential race between a former television personality turned GOP nominee and a female candidate who may be more ethical, experienced, and intelligent but who lacks the blowhard gene. In the end, of course, ratings trump integrity.

  Sound familiar?

  There are existential crises galore here: blind ambition versus doing what’s right; choosing safety or making a break; dangling a shoe or not (again, this will make sense). Everything plays out against the expected backdrop of a sassy and successful BFF, an earnest and slightly nerdy BF, and a cast of blue-collar-with-hearts-of-gold cameramen aiding their Cinderella like a bunch of dressmaking mice.

  It’s all in good fun, with plenty of campy newspeak. “Gabe doesn’t go to mass shootings anymore unless the body count is more than ten,” says Amanda’s friend, referring to a Matt Lauer-esque news anchor.

  But in light of the recent real-life massacres at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando and Emanuel Baptist Church in Charleston (to name just two), it feels too soon for this brand of newsroom gallows humor

  At times, it does seem like Camerota must’ve written her book while staring into a crystal ball; for many readers, the similarities between fictional corruption and the current administration may make the experience less “summer escapism” and more “gut-punching reality check.” In any case, it will be hard to watch “Good Morning America” again without imagining what’s really going on behind the scenes.

  Cathy Alter is author (with Dave Singleton) of CRUSH: Writers Reflect on Love, Longing, and the Lasting Power of Their First Celebrity Crush, as well as Virgin Territory and Up for Renewal. She teaches creative nonfiction at Johns Hopkins in Washington, DC.

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  There are some themes in Alisyn Camerota's new novel that may sound familiar: A young upstart reporter is trying to make it at a national news network run by a ratings-obsessed media mogul. And then there's a female senator, firmly rooted in the establishment, going up against a political newcomer, fresh from Hollywood. Camerota started writing this book many years ago, but the events of 2016 make Amanda Wakes Up feel particularly prescient.

  Camerota is a veteran news anchor and host of CNN's morning show New Day. Though she jokes that her agent and editor occasionally thought she was psychic, she promises she doesn't have a crystal ball.

  "There are some perennial favorite themes in politics and in presidential races," she says. "I hit on them because you can predict with some certainty what will come back around."

  Interview Highlights
  On her main character, Amanda Gallo

  Amanda Gallo is a young, idealistic journalist trying to make her way up the ladder. She starts, as so many of us do, in TV news at a small station that of course doesn't have enough money or any of the fun toys. And she's desperate to get to a network and then she does and lands her dream job of being a morning anchor. Much of the book is about what are you willing to sacrifice for success.

  On Victor Fluke, the political newcomer character

  Victor Fluke is a larger-than-life character. He was a television star, he was in a hit series, and by the time Amanda encounters him, he's a little washed up. He was also known for being in a series of aftershave commercials that were really popular — but he's looking for a comeback.

  Alisyn Camerota is the co-anchor of CNN's New Day, and previously a correspondent and anchor at Fox News.
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  The seeds were planted in 2012 when I was a morning show host on Fox and that [presidential] race — it's hard to remember now because 2016 eclipses everything — but 2012 was also pretty crazy and there was a cast of colorful characters. There was Newt Gingrich, there was Rick Perry, there was Michele Bachmann, there was Mitt Romney, and there was Herman Cain — a lot of these scenes were first crafted with Herman Cain in mind. Because he was an outsider, my boss at the time Roger Ailes [the former, late head of Fox News] ... was pretty enamored of Herman Cain's life story. That he was this pizza magnate and that he had this 9-9-9 [tax overhaul] plan and he was a very compelling character.

  On the Fluke character not being based on Donald Trump

  I can't say that Donald Trump doesn't invade the psyche a little bit. I was around Donald Trump quite a bit during those years and I did interview him quite a bit so he also permeated some of my thought process but that wasn't who I was channeling.

  On ratings-driven news

  When I was hosting Fox & Friends on the weekends and then often filling in on the weekday, Donald Trump started coming on once a week. And those segments always rated, as we say. They got high ratings. They popped. And so that told the producers and all of us that there was something about him. And then they kept booking. It becomes this whole sort of cycle. ...

  This is what happens in a ratings-driven news cycle. That is an interesting phenomenon in TV news. Because are you just ratings hungry? Are you booking somebody because they give you good ratings? Sometimes, but also that is your finger on the pulse of what viewers are interested in.

  So, I saw that happen in real life [at Fox]. At CNN I didn't see that happen as much because by the time we were well into the primary Donald Trump had stopped coming on my show. ... My co-host and I ... had been aggressive with him in interviews. Not purposely, we just had asked tough questions. And he had decided that he would stop coming on our show somewhere in the middle of the primary.

  On her time at Fox News

  When I started at Fox I was really excited. I was excited I had made it to the national level. It was a new network — not many people had heard of it. It wasn't in every household yet. And Fox at that time was not yet seen as a conservative network. I didn't feel that it was a conservative network and nobody ever told me that it was a conservative network. I was hired without ever meeting the bosses — they hired me based on a resume tape.

  Then over the course of a couple of years, I noticed it sort of morphing into having more of an angle. Certainly around the Bill Clinton impeachment stuff, and then certainly 9/11, it just started ... moving. Maybe that was always Roger Ailes' intention, but there were a couple of years where I was a straight news reporter and I didn't have any sense of that. ...

  The atmosphere at Fox was, for the most part, positive. But obviously there were overtones. It's hard for me to put my finger on it.

  On why she didn't report sexual harassment while she still worked at Fox — she has since come out publicly as one of the women who was harassed by Ailes

  I wish I had, I wish I had. That's the lesson now, in the aftermath of all this. So many of the women and I have spoken now, since then, and said, my God, why didn't we reach out to each other? I know why we didn't: It's that everything happened alone, in a room. And I think that one of the things that Roger did was sort of silo everybody. And at the time, I didn't reach out to anyone for help because ... I was embarrassed. It's humiliating to have to tell these stories. It feels ... vulnerable and revealing. And also, Roger was the king. There was no court of higher authority. There was no one else to go to. I just knew that telling an underling would be futile.

  On whether things are different now for young women

  In terms of sexual harassment, I want to believe that it's changing, though recent media stories would suggest otherwise. But I have to believe that it's changing because we are talking about it. And I believe that talking removes the taboo. ... I feel that conversation starting to happen and I hope that means that things are changing, even if slowly.

  On what she tells young women who want to get into the news industry

  I tell them that it's thrilling. And if they have the bug, and if this is in their blood and in their veins, that by all means they should do it. If you get a visceral rush, as I do, from the news — from telling people the news, from telling people stories, from breaking news — then it's just the best business you could ever be in.

  It's exciting; I've traveled to all sorts of countries, I've been on the front lines of things, I've watched history in the making. It's an important business and I'm glad when people are enthusiastic about it.

  Samantha Balaban and Barrie Hardymon produced and edited the audio of this interview. Beth Novey adapted it for the Web.

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